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Old 01-12-2009, 09:45 AM
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Birth Family in photos

I was just curious, for those of you in open adoptions, how you handle displaying photos of your child's birth family? Our son's not even a year old yet, so, as many other posts of mine have said, we are still trying to navigate our OA situation. Here's my situation to better explain: I made a photo book about things we did with our son in 2008 and I included pictures of us with his bfamily, which seems totally logical to us to do. However, I'm hesitant to sit it out because my husband's family is so threatened by the OA. I don't want to hide our son's birthfamily and we have been trying to educate my DH's family on OA as we go, hoping to increase their comfort level, but they're just not "there" yet. They were not all on board with the adoption from the beginning, but have fully taken on our son 100% as part of their/our family now, which we are so happy about. I just don't want to sit out the album and have them feel threatened or insecure by our relationship with our son's bfamily. But, I also think eventually they are going to have to get used to it because our son's bfamily will, hopefully, always be part of our lives and we want our son to be able to talk about them and share photos of things he did with them, etc. We don't ever want him to feel like he has to hide his relationship with his bfamily. We want him to be proud of it and feel comfortable talking about it with his whole family, not just me and my DH. What do the rest of you do with pictures around family that's not so on-board with OA?
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